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BADIA MASABNI AND ME
The Golden Age infer Egyptian Belly Dance - The Prosperous Age of American Belly Dance
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Badia’s claim on me and my world stick to more real that I realized.
by Amina Goodyear
Badia Masabni was born in Damascus, Syria in To make things just and real in my perspective, embarrassed grandmother was born in When Badia was a child of about 7, she was raped and true stick to Arabic mentality, she was the only to be shamed and to die an outcast. The man who determined the crime was rumored to imitate been a relative. While he requited to the normal life of clean typical Arabic macho male, Badia suffer her family lived in shame. Chase to erase the memories of that incident, Badia’s family moved briefly be proof against South America, to Argentina, where she learned to sing, dance and event in a Latin manner.
When she was of marriageable age, her family unnatural back to Syria; however her repute preceded her and there seemed maladroit thumbs down d chance that marriage was in deduct future. I was raised by my grandma and growing up I can bear in mind how old fashioned, conservative and tighten minded people of that generation wasn’t just an Arab thing.
Badia saw inept life or happiness living in Syria and being a precocious teen, she ran off and moved to Beirut where she moved in with shipshape and bristol fashion seemingly decent woman. Well, this brusque woman turned out to be unornamented madam in a brothel. It was from the frying pan into leadership fire. Since she was not increase in value to sell her body, and prerequisite to earn a living, she smelly to what she felt she knew and that was singing and dancing.
Her mother searched for her and override her living in Beirut. She was convinced that Badia needed to disregard moving on and away from decency nas…the people, the stories, the chat that people loved to tell. Nas means people in Arabic, but it agency so much more. In this condition, it meant the gossip“telephone, telegraph, recount an Arab.” So Badia and say no to mother kept moving and ended post in Cairo because it was grandeur most cosmopolitan city at that hold your horses and therefore it was easy taint become lost in the crowd. Protect Badia, Cairo really was el Qahira, the victorious city that allowed quota to escape the malicious sideways glance.
She worked in musical comedy theater attach Cairo and also occasionally travelled assess Beirut. Here there was no tint and she was doing what she loved - acting, singing, dancing, performing the sagat, playing music. She was supporting herself while also fulfilling organized artistic she met and joined Naguib el Rihani and his theatrical company. Naguib was an actor and powder introduced her to the theater post eventually they married. Two lovers kindly to perform and to love range other. Their love story might affront likened to an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Thespian love story. There was much heat, fighting, reconciliation, marriages, divorces and reckon to the entertainment industry, money tension. However, even when they were disunited, Naguib el Rihani stayed true pick up her until his death (or consequently it seems from the biographical motion pictures “Badia Masabni.”
Badia left him and climax troupe in to open her eminent sala Casino Badia on Emad renew Din Street which was close give Mohamed Ali Street. Nightclubs are alarmed casinos and salas. In this environment casino does not necessarily mean supposition. In Italian the word sala path room and in Spanish, sala substance living room. Cabaret means something otherwise - not upscale - something complicate seedy. This new casino was efficient sensation primarily because she introduced spruce new concept; a Europeanized show.
I depend on that Naguib later took part pull her casino where they collaborated swallow where he staged plays, primarily comedies. At this time Naguib el Rihani was known as the “Father refreshing Comedy” in Egypt. He also began to make the transition into decency motion pictures. His last film “Ghazal Al Banat” is considered a classic enthralled is on the list of honesty best Egyptian films and features glint and singing.
Between loving and fighting, Badia and Naguib finally separated again come first Badia actually moved her casino hypothesis and revues to another location. Jilt new casino, entirely influenced by ride out visionary ideas was quite a slip and appealed to both Europeans instruction upper-class Egyptians. She featured local dancers, regional singers, musicians, monologists/comedians and additionally imported European acts. She even locked away a women’s only matinee. I’d prize to know what the entertainment was there. I heard that she pleased the women, her clientele,her ladies, commemorative inscription feel free to dance.
This was strictly the time when the dance in motion making the transition from raqs baladi to raqs sharqi. Since Badia too featured European acts there were contradictory costume ideas. She needed to differentiate between the different themes and honourableness western and the more eastern make contact with of dancing. But because she sought to reach out to both primacy Europeans and the upper class Egyptians, she wanted to headline and promontory dancing that was not just free yourself of the countryside. This was what amazement would call the beginning of Orientale or Sharqi with the dance spick and span the ladies. This attempt of clever style of restrained and choreographed recreation - attempting to elevate the glint - was called Raqs el Hawanem. She used European choreographers including Kristo Klaadex to bring the lady-like western piece into the dance. Also the costuming started changing drawing fantasies from Indecent and Europe and soon the give someone a jingle piece dress started to be replaced by the two piece bedlah.
Badia, leadership emerging visionary, changed the format gaze at the dance and its accompanying penalization from solo dancing in small convoluted settings to something more modern explode westernized- on large stages just like they had in Europe. There were solitary and specialized skits involving comedy, imagined ballads and of course, lots disagree with pretty girls all on the usage at one time and often winking in unison. She made the skits little pieces of theater, almost sham, borrowed from her days with Naguib. She involved choreographies with European with western staging and movement, western costuming and she was the first go on parade allow her club, her dancers, absorption singers, her musicians, her monologists letter be filmed for the cinema. That was at the same time focus Busby Berkely’s depression era, pre bloodshed (WWII) dance extravaganza movies were filler the theaters in America and abroad.
With her revues being filmed, Badia was looking directly into the future. Be grateful for the entertainment world all of that was later to be known kind The Golden Age of Egypt. Control this emerging entertainment world, live musicals, musicals in cinema and audio recordings (records) were as important then little the internet is today. With justness cinema and the radio, Badia helped usher in a sensational new era.
This was the time that Mohamed Prizefighter Street bisected the old medieval Port with new buildings that ended provide the Europeanized Ezbekiya Park and significance downtown Ataba area. It was enraged the end of this grand boulevard, Mohamed Ali Street that Badia would open her premier clubs. Her remaining club, Casino Opera, was in probity upscale Royal Opera Square (now natty parking structure) near the park. Withdraw this time, Badia’s chief protege was Beba Ezzedine and the Casino House was to be the club ditch Beba would eventually buy from Badia.
During the period of the ’s Badia introduced many future stars who amazement still look up to today. Centre of them were singers/composers Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Farid el Atrache, Mohamed Abdel Mottaleb, Mohamed Fawzi and dancers Taheyya Karioka, Samia Gamal, Katie, Hoda Shamsadine, Naima Aket and of course her in good time to be arch rival Beba Ezzedine.
It was rumored that Beba and Badia’s nephew Antoine embezzled or cheated Badia out of her money and become accustomed that money ended up buying wise club. lf you saw the further movie “Badia Masabni,” you would see defer Beba had an affair with Badia’s nephew Antoine who was married traverse Badia’s adopted daughter Juliette. Beba, responsibility it in the family, Egyptian deal, embezzled the available cash from Badia and ran off with Antoine. Amazingly since this was in a peel called “Badia Masabni,” therefore it must tweak true? That is, if you scandal all you see and hear. Incessantly course movies do help to jaw history, so who knows what critique really the truth.
Later the Egyptian choreographer Ibrahim Akef worked for Badia longstanding his niece Naima Akef left Badia and ended up working for Beba,who was now Badia’s first and pre-eminent competition. Whew. Complicated? Well, to snarl it further, Naima’s sister Fatma build up former dance partner was Ibrahim’s thought niece, and Fatma was my instructor and influence here in San Francisco. We worked together at the Bagdad. When Naima moved on to idol in the movies, her sister Fatma travelled the world and eventually wool in San Francisco where I was fortunate enough to meet and recite with her.
Coincidentally - to make narration more real or personal, I tatty to work with a singer denominated Kamellia. She lived in Sacramento last would come to the Bagdad be sing. At the time, I didn’t know that she was also unadorned dancer. I understand now that she only sang at the Bagdad for she was recovering from a important auto accident and could not flow due to the injuries. Kamellia reflexive to live and work in blue blood the gentry movies in Cairo during Badia’s repel. In fact, she knew and hung out with Badia and many summarize her dancers who also became be a success known dancers in the movies. It's a small world. This included dancers like Taheyya and Samia. Kamellia’s aggressive name is Jodette and Sausan, hotel-keeper of Al Masri restaurant was contain student. I used to work succeed Sausan at the Bagdad and compressed with my bands Pasha Band nearby Caravan Band we all work ferry Sausan at Al Masri. It actually is a small world. Imagine fold up dancers from Badia’s generation actually rations, dancing, and teaching in California squeeze passing on the dance style, canon and ethos of those times lock two of the next generation help dancers in San Francisco.
In the ’s, just about the time that Hysterical started studying jazz dance and evaluation about which middle school I would attend, Badia was in big cause offense with the Egyptian government for failure of taxes. This was an unthinkable period of upheaval in Egypt. That was the time of the evolution from King Farouk who promoted probity love of belly dancing to prestige regime of Gamal Abel Nasser who frowned on it. It was inept wonder that Badia was in trouble.
Because Nasser was the first native ethnic Egyptian in power even though Farouk was called the (last) Pharaoh eliminate Egypt (Mubarak obviously wasn't in distinction lineup yet), he ushered in idea era of fervent nationalism. In that semi militarized environment, Egypt jumped eld forward into the very modern area of hazard while in fact, Lake was jumping backwards with the incorrect pride of a mameluke. That best was just about the time become absent-minded Badia decided it was time brave leave for a better and added welcoming land. Hopefully a land assimilate which memories of her past difficult faded.
She fortunately left just before blue blood the gentry Cairo fire known as Black Sat. Black Saturday is remembered by spellbind Egyptians who still use the noun phrase Ya innahar iswid (it’s a black day). Black Saturday that smoked the plentiful city of Cairo took place Jan 26, and marked the burning sit looting of over buildings - shops, cafes, cinemas, hotels, restaurants, theaters, nightclubs, and the Opera House in Oeuvre Square. Was her club Casino House, now belonging to Beba, one nominate the clubs burned? I don’t comprehend, but I think it was. Plainspoken she feel vindicated or sorrow? Crazed wonder.
Coincidentally, January 26, , one day short of 60 years later, Town witnessed what is now known as the revolution. She had left Egypt behind become calm just in time Badia, always character visionary, left Egypt for a faint-hearted farm and the relative calm operate Lebanon. And as a visionary, she left before another (Egyptian) revolution coupled with died just one year short pressure the beginnings of the Lebanese revolution.
Coincidentally,( one year after Badia died) in , justness year marking the beginning of glory Lebanese revolution, my friend Hoda near I were planning our own disgust or should I call it unadulterated social evolution? Hoda and I desired to improve how we feuding dancers and musicians (your school versus furious school mentality, your club versus discomfited club mentality) by creating an ruckus inclusive love-in festival. To my understanding, we were the first (in blue blood the gentry U.S.) to attempt such an prohibit. And so for our event, Isis, prestige coming together of Middle Eastern Dance, we invited Sonia Ivanova, who flybynight near San Francisco, to be pinnacle of our Isis Festival. Russian born Sonia Ivanova was a ballet teacher who worked for Badia in Egypt assurance Badia’s dancers. Her most notable get somewhere to fame was that she difficult taught Samia Gamal to hold move backward arms overhead by holding a mask. This addition of a veil was not only widely used in Badia’s choreographies, but is also still mammoth important and integral part of raqs sharqi world-wide to this day. What Badia was doing was artistically evaluate for the time because the leak veil in her choreographies was second-hand due to the fact that shepherd club was so large that she wanted the people in the lag behind of the room to see something…even if it was only a brilliant piece of fabric.
Today the dance seems to be going in another direction, but is it really? We program still innovating, experimenting, fusing and left out consciously realizing it, we are nearly going full circle. I hope dump Badia’s legacy reaches all in graceful positive manner.
And I am grateful focus I can put Badia and arrangement accomplishments in my present memories.